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ioan eugen stan commented on MAILBOX-44: ---------------------------------------- I installed James 3.0m2 on localhost. Installation was easy, I just had to disable exim so james could bind to port 25. I succesfully sent an email and configured Icedove (Mozilla Thunderbird to get the mail by IMAP). I also succesfully built james (trunk) on my machine but I had to disable the test building because maven complained about missing plug-ins on tests. Last, I had a look on James mailbox API. Didn't know where to start, but got it: it's big. My first try was to find the mailbox dependency in James Server but I couldn't find it. Luckily I had just read about Dependency Injection (http://martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html) and spring. James is using dependency injection fitting in the right mailbox API at runtime, based on config files. Right? > [gsoc2011] Design and implement a distributed mailbox using Hadoop > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: MAILBOX-44 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAILBOX-44 > Project: James Mailbox > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Eric Charles > Assignee: Norman Maurer > Labels: gsoc2011 > > Context: The mailbox subproject (http://james.apache.org/mailbox/) supports > maildir, SQL database (via JPA) and Java Content Repository (JCR) as > technology for mail storage. This flexibility is achieved thanks to a API > design that abstracts mail storage from the mail protocols. > Task: We need to implement mailbox storage as a distributed system on top of > Hadoop HDFS. The James mailbox API will be used. A first step is to design > how to interact with Hadoop (native api, gora incubator at apache,...) and > deal with specific performance questions related to mail loading/parsing in a > distributed system (use map/reduce or not, use existing local lucene indexes > for search,...). The second step is to implement the HDFS mailbox (maildir > mailbox is similar because is stores mails as a file and can be an > inspiration). A single James server will still be deployed because we don't > have any distributed UID generation. > Mentor: eric at apache dot org > Complexity: medium -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-dev-unsubscr...@james.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: server-dev-h...@james.apache.org